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diff --git a/testing/source/pkgtools/manpages/pkgdiff.8 b/testing/source/pkgtools/manpages/pkgdiff.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5d91ac21 --- /dev/null +++ b/testing/source/pkgtools/manpages/pkgdiff.8 @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.ds g \" empty +.ds G \" empty +.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half +.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. +.de Tp +.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP +.el .TP "\\$1" +.. +.TH PKGDIFF 8 "11 Apr 2018" "Slackware Version 15.0 +.SH NAME +pkgdiff \- compare the file contents of two packages. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B pkgdiff +[ +.B \--help +] +[ +.B \-c +] +[ +.B \-a +] +.BI packagename +.BI packagename2 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B pkgdiff +Displays the differences in the files contained in two packages. This works with +plain .tar, Slackware packages (.tgz, .tbz, .tlz, .txz), .rpm, and .deb. By default, +the results will be displayed in a tree-style unified diff format. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \--help +Display help for using the pkgdiff utility. +.TP +.B \-c +Colorize the tree-style output a-la DIR_COLORS. If piping to a pager such as +less, you'll need to enable displaying raw data. For example: +.P +pkgdiff -c package-1.0-i586-1.txz package-2.0-i586-1.txz | less -r +.TP +.B \-a +Instead of a tree-style output format, generate a simple unified diff of the +package file lists. +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +.B Compare two packages and pipe the result to less: +.P +pkgdiff package-1.0-i586-1.txz package-2.0-i586-1.txz | less +.SH AUTHOR +Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR makepkg(8), +.BR removepkg(8), +.BR explodepkg(8), +.BR pkgtool(8), +.BR upgradepkg(8) |